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Monday, 7 December 2009

Celebrate Marie ATC

I've finished my ATCs for another swap on the Marie Antoinette group. The swap was to celebrate the first anniversary of the group and the theme was : Let them eat cake. Required was to feature a cake image on every card. I was recently given some napkins with cupcake images by a participant on one of my swap on the ATCsforAll site (thanks tattiekite!!) so I stamped a piece of calico with a selection of cake stamps and then made a fabric - paper collage putting those napkins to good use.

I fuzzy cut this background so that I had at least one cake on every ATC background and then layered these up with felt by stitching. I stamped the Marie image (from Cherry Pie Art Stamps) onto an acetate sheet using red Staz-On and cut it to ATC sized pieces as well. These were stitched on top of the background and a little pink butterfly was also adhered on top. Finally I printed out Celebrate Marie with my trusty Dymo writer and put it onto the ATCs.

Finally a piece of cardstock was added to the back, all the edges of the ATCs were finished with pink zig-zag stitching and a medley of size 11 seed beads were stitched on by hand.

Although all backgrounds are different the idea for all the ATCs was more or less the same so just one picture!

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I am an award winning artist mainly working in textiles and mixed media, whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally,and has won many prizes including winning the Scottish Quilt Championship in 1998, the European Quilt Championship in 2006 and the British Quilt and Stitch Village in 2015. My work has also won prizes for hand workmanship, computer design, art quilting and embellishment. I entered the world of mixed media around 2004 and my Artist Trading Card (ATC) Enduring, Unending won Best of Show in the House of Cards exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, 2005. I love art journalling and at the moment I'm an monthly Guest Designer for Stencilgirl Products. My art has been published in a wide variety of magazines and books both here in the U.K. and abroad.I love photography and have uploaded a daily picture to the Blipfoto site for the last 6.5 years. In 2012 I completed my self set task of making one Journal Quilt every week in the 52 Journals Project and they were exhibited in a very successful show in Peebles in 2014. I'm a full-time studio artist.

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